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ATENT trio,

BITTERS.

"ATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 350,988, dated October 19, 1886.

Application filed June 8,1986. Serial No. 204,502. (No specimens.)

To aaZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN H. OWINGS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Deer Lodge City, in the county of Deer Lodge and Territory of Montana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bitters; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to bitters, and has for its object to make a bitters invigorating to the digestive organs, purifying to the blood, and improving to the appetite; and it consists of the compound hereinafter particularly described and claimed.

To prepare the bitters, the following is the formula: dried orangepeel, ground, two pounds; gentian-root, ground, two pounds; Oregon grape-root, ground, one-half pound; Virginia snakeroot, ground, one pound; blue flag, (calamus,) ground, one-half pound; coriantler-seed, ground, one-half pound; carda noon-seeds, ground, one -half pound; cinnamonbark, ground, onehalf pound; dilute alcohol, four gallons. The above is macerated for fourteen days, then expressed and filtered,

and afterward there is added toitsiniplesirup, four gallons; alcohol, fourteen gallons, and water in sufficient quantity to make fortyeight gallons. The whole is thoroughly mixed and then bottled.

The dose is one table-spoonful to a wine glassful before meals.

The proportions given above are considered the best for producing the hitters; but the proportions may be varied without departing from the invention.

Having described my invention and set forth its merits, what I claim is The within-described hitters, having as ingredients dried orange-peel, gentian root, Virginia snake-root, Oregon grape-root, blue flag, (ealamus) coriander seed, cardanionseed, cinnamon bark, alcohol, and simple sirup, in about the proportion specified, for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN H. OWINGS.

\Vitnesses:

A. P. Wmsnow,

CHAS. S. Vitamins. 

